Chapter 117 Family Happiness

Constantine nodded happily: "Yes, listen to my words. It won't do you any harm anyway. As long as you experience it in the future, you will naturally agree with these words."

It never occurred to Constantine that his son had not suppressed his fart and was going to interfere in other people's family affairs.

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Soon, the carriage stopped at the gate of the school district. Yes, this area is now called a school district.

This year, Ernst expanded the campus to receive orphans from Paraguay and orphans from Germany.

At first, Ernst did not expect that there would be so many orphans in Germany. Now Hechingen School is a veritable orphanage.

The total number of orphans in Hechingen is close to 20,000, all of which are accepted by several schools built by the royal family of Hechingen.

You must know that there are only tens of thousands of residents in Hechingen. Now Hechingen has become the largest orphanage in Germany.

Moreover, as the number of orphans in Paraguay increased, Ernst also set up a separate school to teach these Paraguayan children German.

As for the Far Eastern orphans at the Hechingen Military Academy, they are actually older, many of them teenagers, mainly to train translators in the colonies.

Of course, there are also younger ones, but they don't go to military academies, but to ordinary German schools.

Currently, there are four schools under construction or expansion in Hechingen, and ten completed buildings, all of which are teaching buildings and dormitories.

Among them, the Hechingen Military Academy is mainly for older orphans, while the other three schools are for younger orphans.

As an accelerated school, the Hechingen Military Academy assumed the functions of a middle school. Many students who were not particularly outstanding in their studies were sent directly to the East African colonies after graduation.

The first few sessions were okay. They were all older kids who were sixteen or seventeen years old. Children in this era look more mature, so it is not out of place in East Africa and society.

Nowadays, the age of students at the Hechingen Military Academy is getting younger and younger, and many of the graduates are now only fifteen or sixteen years old.

The younger they are, the easier it is to transform their minds, but the cost of training is also relatively high. They must be at least fifteen or sixteen years old before they can graduate. Calculating this, some orphans are only five or six years old now, and Ernst has to raise them for at least ten years. Year.

As for the younger ones, Ernst arranged for some families in the East African colonies to adopt them, and the East African colonial government provided subsidies and supervised them.

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"Come on, little one, say hello to grandpa, and grandpa will give you candy, okay?"

"Hello grandpa!"

"Oh, you are so good!" Constantine happily hugged a little baby, peeled off the candy wrapper, and handed it to the little baby's mouth.

The children around him looked at him with envy, but there was also a hint of lack of worry in their eyes, and they swallowed secretly. Constantine's heart instantly softened when he saw this.

"Children! As long as you all call me grandpa, I will share all these candies with you, okay?"

However, no one dared to step forward.

Constantine knew that these children were afraid of strangers, so he pulled a little doll and asked kindly: "Do you like sweets? Children."

The little doll nodded timidly.

"Since you like to eat sweets, what about you? Call me grandpa and I will give you this candy, okay?"

"Okay." The little baby said in a milky voice, "Grandpa."

"Oh, you are so good!" So the little milkman also got the candy. Constantine said to the children around him: "Look, grandpa means what he says. As long as you call grandpa, grandpa will give you these candies."

"Grandpa, grandpa..." The children, who had already been attracted by the candies, couldn't resist the temptation and spoke one after another.

Constantine happily gave candies to the children.

This is the lower grade class of Hechingen School, and the class is full of five- and six-year-old children.

"Ernst, stop standing around and have fun, come here and give me a hand." Constantine said to Ernst.

"Yes, father!" Ernst gave a funny military salute, and then began to give out candies to these children.

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Military Academy Hechingen.

"Hello principal!"

Hechingen Military Academy, as a military academy, the students are definitely not young, about fifteen or sixteen years old.

Naturally, we can't treat these students like we did to the children just now.

"Well, hello, classmates! First of all! I wish you all a Merry Christmas. I didn't bring any expensive gifts today, I just prepared some candies. Where is the monitor? You can give them to everyone."

"Thank you, principal!" everyone said. Politeness is a compulsory course at the Hechingen Military Academy. You should be grateful when accepting gifts from others.

"Yes." Ernst nodded with satisfaction, exited the classroom, and went to the next class.

In fact, Ernst was only a year or two older than these children, but with the blessing of his status, Ernst still looked very majestic.

At the beginning, Ernst taught the first batch of Hechingen students. He was not even as old as some of the students. But in terms of temperament, Ernst, who had experienced two lives and received an aristocratic education, looked like he was in his twenties and thirties in his previous life. Year old adults.

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After delivering the gifts, it was getting dark, and Constantine and Ernst were about to go back.

As the carriage rolled on the stone road, Constantine said to Ernst: "Seeing these cute children reminds me of you when you were a child, you were such a small one, jumping up and down every day, just like a little monkey. At that time I was still worried about whether the royal family of Hechingen would fall into decline in the future if I were so frivolous. But gradually you have become an adult, with a calm personality and bold thinking. Now it seems that my worries are unnecessary. "

"Father, don't worry, the interests of the family come first. This is what I abide by all the time. The future of the Hechingen royal family must be bright." Ernst said to Prince Constantine.

"I know this too, but you guys have to argue with me. You and Karina will give me some fat grandsons in the future. Only when the population is prosperous can the family inheritance prosper. This is what the Heixingen family has learned. Lesson learned, I hope your generation will not follow the same old path. Look, no matter how prominent a family in Europe is, if they have no successors, they will not just disappear into history." Constantine warned solemnly.

"I also understand this. Don't worry, father." Ernst replied seriously.

Seeing that Ernst was not perfunctory, Constantine nodded with satisfaction. In fact, Constantine sometimes found it incredible.

Sometimes Ernst's thinking is not like that of a young man at all. Instead, he is as old-fashioned and traditional as himself, but he was not like this when he was young! That is to say, people gradually become more stable after middle age.

But Ernst was different. Although he would also communicate with friends and peers, he was always strictly self-disciplined and extremely enterprising.

Of course, many people of the same age as Ernst mostly hung out in military camps, where they were naturally disciplined, but when they entered society, they showed their true colors. During holidays, you can see bartenders and young soldiers hanging out in dance halls.